My Opinion on Colour Blindness

[Anonymous]

So, this'll be interesting :p

So, everyone has different eyes, correct?

So wouldn't you say that means we all see things in a different way that each human can't perceive from that specific persons view?

Here's the thing. We have labelled colour blindness, but the only reason we have such a thing is because society hasn't thought this through enough.

You could put a test through everyone on this planet asking them what colour they see, but if you put a "Red" and a "Blue" square next to each other for them to say "I see red and blue" That is just a label for the colour, not necessarily the specific colour that they see.

Red may be the colour they see that we see as say, yellow or pink (Just an example) My point is, these "LABELS" don't suggest even 10% accuracy to the idea that everyone is seeing the same colour on the colours title, it is just a name and therefore you cannot work upon that to assume the multiple people are seeing the same vision.

Sure you could argue "We could just ask if someone is seeing two different colours as the same colour" But this is not helpful at all, they might be seeing different colours that they call that colour, you might call a colour red while someone else would see a different colour calling it red as well.

My point is very simple, I think there should not be the title "Colour blindness" as everyone possibly or most likely is seeing colours different to others while putting the same titles on them due to societies huge control over the names.

I hope this put you into some thought and thank you <3

[BeeNee]

The name "color blindness" is of course a misnomer because the color blind do in fact see some color... just differently or in some cases, quite literally not at all. However, if I'm asking a group of people what color the apple is, and most identify it as red, you're not asking what variant of red they see, but more so the idea of what the majority of people know as red. Those that cannot see red as the majority do would most likely be defined as color deficient if the phrase suits you better. I may ask the same of those when it comes to vision. If I place an object in front of a room and ask what it is, and one can only see shadows and the other can see and id it clearly, the person who can only see shadows does see something, but they still have a visual deficiency no matter what we call it. The labels, though discouraging they may be, help us to know in actuality that there isn't something necessarily wrong with you in that you cannot "understand" color or there is a language barrier or you literally do not what what color is or what's in front of you, but rather that you do not see as the majority of others do. This can help a teacher, for example, to not fail you in school because you can't identify the colors on your homework assignment. It's not because you lack the ability to understand the block is blue or red, but that you literally cannot see it the way the majority do. To take the label off puts you at more of a disadvantage.

[myTake Owner]

I se where you are coming from but I am going further than this and saying

If a non colour blind person and a other person saw the same object.
The person who placed the object there says it is red.
Both people, the two who are looking at it and the person who placed it there, all 3.
These people would be possibly seeing different colours that they grew up being told is red.

E. g:
1st School: You for example start learning different colours, they are on boards, they simply have the colour and the name. Growing up like this makes you believe at a young age that the colour you see is the colour everyone sees as red.

I know this is a difficult thing to describe :/

I guess I can't really describe this properly so sorry :(

[BeeNee]

I get what you are trying to explain (or at least I think I do, lol). Basically X=red. Color blind person sees as they see, that if X is somewhere, they were told that that X is red, and so they associate what they are seeing to be red as they know and see it whereas X=red to someone who doesn't have colorblindness is red too, but they see red differently, but still know that same color to be red, so its red.

But what I'm trying to get across is that removing the label of color blindness would be far less helpful to you when dealing with the majority. Only about 8% of the male population and 0.5% of the female population have color blindness. In school and elsewhere without such labels, people would be of the assumption that you see color as they generally do. So things like don't touch the red wire because it will electrocute you would present a huge problem without the color labels you want to get rid of.

[BeeNee]

Having a color deficiency is the reason why those with color blindness cannot work certain jobs that require one to be able to see such color because it can be extremely dangerous. Sure, we can put a label tab that says, this is red, and you see what you see, but if that is incorrectly placed or the label falls off, are you willing to put others at risk, simply because you don't want to be labeled?

[myTake Owner]

OMG, you really did understand! *FEELS LIKE I SUCCEEDED IN A MISSION*
Your description was bang on about the X= RED Really, you read my mind, I am glad that you were someone who could understand this ^_^'

[myTake Owner]

No, I don't want to put others at risk, I was just confused why we have the label.

I guess we have to allow society to call us colour blind for the greater good of those with severe vision troubles, yes?

[BeeNee]

Or society can change the name to a more accurate one like, "color deficient," as color blindness implies you see no color at all which is not true for most people with color blindness. Curious, though, if you've ever heard of the Enchroma glasses that supposedly allow those with color blindness to see "normal" color? A good or a bad thing?

[myTake Owner]

Colour deficient sounds kind of okay
I would never use the glasses, it feels like they are trying to tell me what colours are what when I grew up seeing the world like this, it would be insulting T_T

[BeeNee]

There's no curiosity on your part to want to try them just to be like, oh, okay, that's different? I've seen what color blind people see by visiting websites that show what color looks like to you, just out of curiosity, but probably for the same reasons as you may feel, I wouldn't want to keep seeing color that way because I'm used to seeing colors the way I do, but it does give one a different perspective and a different understanding of others.

[myTake Owner]

Yeah, but it would be like inception for me, it would be like "SO... WHAT COLOUR IS REALITY?" I would most likely get even more paranoid than I already am about that kinda shit so no I am good thanks ^_^'

[BeeNee]

Ah, fair enough.

[myTake Owner]

Yup :p

[Anonymous]

Interesting

[Anonymous]

Color blind people are in minority though. They acutally do not see some colors that the vast majority of us do. They can't see numbers in the color blindness tests that normal people can. You have to call it something. And since they don't see certain colors, and don't see colors as everyone else, then color blindness is kind of a suitable term for it.

[myTake Owner]

-_-

Still, it annoys me T_T

[omgjassy]

Interesting.

[myTake Owner]

Thank you ^_^'